Competing Quote by Eddy Merckx Download Open image “What wears you out is the competing, not the training.” — Eddy Merckx ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Competing Fitness Out Training Wears You
If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on… — Meryl Davis Copy Share Image
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. — Rich Froning Jr Copy Share Image
Training sessions are war; you play a little training match and you want to win. — Wendie Renard Copy Share Image
The closer you get to competition the volume of training you actually do is less, so as to allow your body to rest and… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
If you can see all my life, I've been training since a very young age. I've been competing in so many different competitions, so… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
It's not just about training, it's about playing competitive football. — Adam Lallana Copy Share Image
I've trained since I started walking, I've played sports, I've competed. I've learned how to win, even if I haven't done it as much… — Gary Woodland Copy Share Image
Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to… — Tom Daley Copy Share Image
No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Absolutely, in stage races, Froome is better than Eddy Merckx. Maybe he can win five, six Tours de France, but my focus wasn't only… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I didn't win any bunch sprints. But I won in solo breakaways, I won time-trials, I won in the mountains. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I always had and I still have that special desire in me to be the best. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that every time I race I go to the very limit of my strength. But when the opportunity appears I consider… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
I can tell you I preferred my era. Yes, they make much more money now but I preferred my cycling. The passion for racing.… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Doping has to be fought, cheats must be unmasked, abuse should be punished but all this should remain human. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
It's difficult for him, carrying the name. But Axel is doing what he likes to do, and for me, if Axel's happy, I'm also… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you've arrived. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that you're the best of your generation and I can say that I was. — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time… — Eddy Merckx Copy Share Image
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but… — Liz Halliday Copy Share Image
There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap. — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli.… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
